Roger Scruton Quotes

Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.

Don't tell 'em - SHOW 'em!

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Speech is the mirror of action.

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Actions lie louder than words.

Words do not convince me; I must have deeds.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.

It's hard to tell writers, especially in movies, that words are secondary. Behavior is important.

It's hard to win people's minds over. The only way to change their minds is to perform.

Language always gives you away.

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.

Doubts could be swept away only by deeds.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.